GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
Radeon R7 260X		4381 points
	Difference: 3246 (74%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
Radeon R7 260X		95 Sol/s
	Difference: 59 (62%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 260X		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (27%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960, in theory, should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon R7 260X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be a little bit (more or less 17%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10528 (17%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (approximately 105%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R7 260X, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18464 (105%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.